Nasty GDP Report
The latest GDP report for the first quarter can be reviewed here.
Audio: George Reisman Discusses Capitalism
George Reisman speaks on a variety of issues, including economic inequality, income and inheritance taxes, with John O’Donnell on the Power Trading Radio show. George Reisman is economics professor emeritus from Pepperdine University. He received his Ph.D from New York University with Ludwig von Mises as his thesis advisor. He was also a close associate of Murray Rothbard for many years and Ayn Rand.
(Length: 30 Minutes)
Mises View Video: “Inequality and Capital”
Mark Thornton critiques Thomas Piketty’s recent bestseller, and explains why capitalism is not the problem, nor are taxation and redistribution of wealth the solutions.
Obama’s Drone Wars Undermine American Values
Markets Are About Much More Than Material Goods
The affluence of free markets makes it possible to pursue goals few of us would have the means to pursue otherwise.
Audio: What Government is Doing to Our Money
Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Jeff Deist discusses the Federal Reserve, the criminal political class, and how the collapse of the U.S. dollar is imminent.
Peikoff on Snowden
Leonard Peikoff, much to my surprise, has an excellent podcast on Edward Snowden. He praises Snowden for revealing the vast amount of information the NSA collects about us. The government’s program is in essence totalitarian, and Peikoff aptly draws a parallel with Orwell’s 1984.
Differences Don’t Necessarily Equal Discrimination
Well, another Equal Pay Day has come and gone. This year it came on April 8th to represent how long into 2014 a woman would have to work to make what a man did in 2013. The highlight this year was when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to explain away the pay gap between men and women in the White House by saying that when men and women hold similar positions, they are paid the same.
Rothbard, Lachmann, Kirzner, 1974
Richard Ebeling shares this great picture of Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Lachmann, and Israel Kirzner at the beginning of the South Royalton conference in 1974.
Ex-Pol Discovers Entrepreneurship is Hard
Today’s dose of schadenfreude comes courtesy of former pol David Bonior, who “represented” a US congressional district near Detroit for 26(!) years. Mr. Bonior may be an ex-Congressman, but against all odds has chosen to remain in Washington DC during his retirement. And it’s an active retirement, since he has poured some of his personal wealth into two different Capitol Hill restaurants.
